18-year-old Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju defeated ... A dream come true for the teenager who's now the 18th world chess champion. "Every chess players wants to experience this moment and ...

The first machine had a vertical board. Of course, it couldn’t play a full game of chess. The machine always played white with a king and rook in a fixed position. The human’s lone black king ...

Singapore Chess Federation/ Facebook An 8-year-old Chess prodigy made history over the weekend by becoming the youngest player to ever defeat a grandmaster in an official tournament match.

With a dramatic victory Thursday in a deciding match, 18-year-old Gukesh ... to a king and just one pawn for Ding. The rook move elicited gasps of astonishment from chess analysts viewing remotely ...

For Assignment Tim Whewell reports from Moscow and New York on the deeply politicised game of chess and asks if it’s finally checkmate for the king of chess. Dina Newman producing. Photo ...